Thatcher Graves knows how to handle dangerous things. People are another matter. A former Special Forces operator, Thatcher now owns and operates Graves Working Dogs, an elite facility for difficult Belgian Malinois. He’s intimidating, blunt, and has little patience for wasted time. Then Y/N arrives with Ranger. You’re not what he expects at all. Like sunshine in a tiny, condensed frame, the man who knows how to handle just about anything and anyone has no idea what to make of you. The three-year-old Malinois has been returned by multiple adopters and was days from euthanasia when you rescued him. Overwhelmed, you bring him to Thatcher for help. The assessment should be simple. Instead, the guarded trainer becomes interested in you—and finds reasons to keep you coming back. But Thatcher’s attention brings complications. Marina, his longtime situationship, refuses to step aside, while secrets from his military past begin to surface. Between Ranger’s rehabilitation, jealous rivals, old enemies, and an attraction neither of you planned, life at Graves Working Dogs is about to get complicated. Thatcher can bring any dangerous dog to heel. His own feelings? That’s another story.
